1923 - 1993
Leonid Iovich Gaidai (Russian: Леони́д Ио́вич Гайда́й; 30 January 1923 – 19 November 1993) was a Soviet and Russian comedy film director, screenwriter and actor who enjoyed immense popularity and broad public recognition in the former Soviet Union. His films broke theatre attendance records and were some of the top-selling DVDs in Russia. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonid Gaidai has received more than 184,913 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Leonid Gaidai is the 258th most popular film director (up from 278th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Russia (up from 518th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Leonid Gaidai ranks 258 out of 1,581. Before him are Hideaki Anno, Robert Wiene, Joe D'Amato, Márta Mészáros, Gillo Pontecorvo, and Jean Epstein. After him are Tex Avery, Zack Snyder, Franklin J. Schaffner, Bigas Luna, Jean-Jacques Beineix, and John Schlesinger.
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 252
1873 - 1938
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 253
1936 - 1999
HPI: 58.49
Rank: 254
1931 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 255
1919 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 256
1897 - 1953
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 257
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 258
1908 - 1980
HPI: 58.33
Rank: 259
1966 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 260
1920 - 1989
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 261
1946 - 2013
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 262
1946 - 2022
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 263
1926 - 2003
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 264
Among people born in 1923, Leonid Gaidai ranks 71. Before him are Chaleo Yoovidhya, Victoria de los Ángeles, Norman Mailer, Reinhart Koselleck, Richard Avedon, and Lloyd Shapley. After him are Ernest Mandel, André Gorz, Sergey Akhromeyev, Hwang Jang-yop, Koji Miyata, and Antony Flew. Among people deceased in 1993, Leonid Gaidai ranks 50. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle, Horia Sima, River Phoenix, Don Ameche, Lucia Popp, and Stewart Granger. After him are Léo Ferré, Kakuei Tanaka, Eddie Constantine, Helen Hayes, Bruno Pontecorvo, and Matthew Ridgway.
1923 - 2012
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 65
1923 - 2005
HPI: 58.55
Rank: 66
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 67
1923 - 2006
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 68
1923 - 2004
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 69
1923 - 2016
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 70
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 71
1923 - 1995
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 72
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 73
1923 - 1991
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 74
1923 - 2010
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 75
1923 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 76
1923 - 2010
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 77
1896 - 1993
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 44
1907 - 1993
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 45
1970 - 1993
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 46
1908 - 1993
HPI: 58.89
Rank: 47
1939 - 1993
HPI: 58.71
Rank: 48
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 49
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 50
1916 - 1993
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 51
1918 - 1993
HPI: 58.24
Rank: 52
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 53
1900 - 1993
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 54
1913 - 1993
HPI: 57.57
Rank: 55
1895 - 1993
HPI: 57.48
Rank: 56
Among people born in Russia, Leonid Gaidai ranks 499 out of 3,262. Before him are Sacha Guitry (1885), Viktor Belenko (1947), Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov (1890), Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917), Maria Spiridonova (1884), and Ivan Maisky (1884). After him are Nikolay Zhukovsky (1847), Dmitry Muratov (1961), Alexander Butlerov (1828), Gavrila Derzhavin (1743), Rodion Shchedrin (1932), and Mikhail Alekseyev (1857).
1885 - 1957
HPI: 58.44
Rank: 493
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.41
Rank: 494
1890 - 1946
HPI: 58.39
Rank: 495
1917 - 2005
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 496
1884 - 1941
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 497
1884 - 1975
HPI: 58.35
Rank: 498
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 499
1847 - 1921
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 500
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 501
1828 - 1886
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 502
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 503
1932 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 504
1857 - 1918
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 505
Among film directors born in Russia, Leonid Gaidai ranks 7. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky (1932), Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), and Lev Kuleshov (1899). After him are Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Elem Klimov (1933), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Yuri Norstein (1941), Alexander Sokurov (1951), and Grigori Aleksandrov (1903).
1932 - 1986
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 1
1863 - 1938
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 2
1937 - Present
HPI: 62.56
Rank: 3
1945 - Present
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 4
1893 - 1953
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 5
1899 - 1970
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 6
1923 - 1993
HPI: 58.34
Rank: 7
1927 - 2015
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 8
1933 - 2003
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 9
1882 - 1965
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 11
1951 - Present
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 12
1903 - 1983
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 13